TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nichols,Robert
TI  - Settling the Frontier: Land, Law and Society in the Peshawar Valley, 1500-1900 
SN  - 9780199406135
AV  - DS392.2.P47 N53 2017
U1  - 954.9123 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Karachi, Pakistan
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Pushtuns
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Peshawar Region
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Peshawar Region (Pakistan)
KW  - Peshawar District (Pakistan)
KW  - Peshawar District
N1  - "Celebrating 70 years of Pakistan, the platinum series."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-322, 359-371) and index; Introduction : The Peshawar Valley and the Idea of a Frontier --; 1; History, Anthropology, and the Eighteenth Century --; 2; Genealogy as Ideology --; 3; The Politics, Poetics, and Economy of the Land --; 4; Narratives of Continuity and Domination --; 5; Millenarianism : Religion, Class, and Resistance --; 6; Social Geographies --; 7; Settling the Frontier --; 8; Colonizing Institutions --; 9; Anglo-Pakhtun Society --; 10; Interpreting Resistance, the 'Fanatic', and the Subaltern --; Conclusion: Settlement as Metaphor -- Postscript for the 2017 edition
N2  - "This work explores the question of social transformation within the Peshawar valley from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, an extended period when regional villagers and pastoralists experienced and interacted with the demands of evolving imperial and cultural ideas and institutions"--Dustcover Page 4
ER  -